[luntfontanne]

damn he really is an all-time poster

[sexchangewerewolf]

[recoverr-deactivated20250621]

i don't know who needs to hear this, but guilt, self-hatred and shame are not sustainable sources of growth and healing. you can't hate yourself into feeling better, or being better. you can't repeatedly punish yourself for your flawed humanity and expect wholesome results.

[vajracchedika]

The light is fading so quickly like the shadows have overtaken the leaves' green . Feels like a quiet of mourning . Moment of silence not so precise but in the right direction ..

[belletower2]

[onceuponatown]

Burlington, Iowa. February 1942. 

Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information.

[eroscestlavie]

Honestly making new friends in my late 20s early 30s has in some ways been indistinguishable from dating except the courtship period is not romantic or sexual. I think people need to revisit the art of flirting in a friend way…like presenting your best self to a person and genuinely glowing when they return the gesture. And letting people influence and change you and getting excited when you have a chance to talk to them. That’s what makes getting to know someone fun in the first place…everyone in those advice threads about how to befriend people is basically describing how to have Coworkers not friends. “Go to a bar and hang out and start a conversation” you can do this but you have to follow up the first encounter with putting your best foot forward instead of just listlessly hoping for the social approval of the other party!!!!

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[eroscestlavie]

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.

[neest]

[petaltexturedskies]

Adam Zagajewski, tr. by Clare Cavanagh, from "Try to Praise the Mutilated World”

[senatorladybug]

bf inspires me to be a better version of myself :p been depressed lately and today he took me on a breakfast date to get me out of bed a little earlier than usual. trying not to sleep my summer away. the other day he sent me on a walk because i was so visibly miserable

[senatorladybug]

Her new spot

[senatorladybug]

accompanied the girls to Sephora at del amo mall and got this beforehand and thought nothing of it until all of the employees there asked me where it was from (upstairs)

[senatorladybug]

hosted our first dinner party tonight and it was fun

[eltonjohndenver]

some of you don’t seem to realize that In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" but the fighter still remains

[fairycosmos]

your problem is you think if you communicate with clarity and earnestness that people will actually understand you

[kafk-a]

Alice Notley in The Paris Review (1970)